KUBUNTU -> mount

BernardoLG · 09-30-2006, 10:53 PM

Greetings!
I try hard not to post newbie questions, but guess what?, I'm new to Linux, and VERY eager to be as good as I can at it.
In the meanwhile, I need help.
I have KUBUNTU installed in a 40 GB drive, and I partitioned it and reserved 3 GB for fat32 space to be shared.
Now, in the

media:/

folder it shows the partition, and when I right-click it it shows the option to "mount" it. When I try to do so, it shows the following error:

mount: cannot find /dev/hdb4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Check the device to be properly inserted.

(That's my translation to English).

How can I mount it?

IBall · 10-01-2006, 12:22 AM

Assuming that the device is /dev/hdb4. Open up a terminal window, and enter the following command:

Code:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /media

Then "ls /media/" to see if your files are there.

If that works, "sudo umount /media" and then add the following line to /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/hdb4       /media/hdb4        vfat defaults        0       2

Then that partition should be mounted at /media/hdb4 everytime your system boots. Make sure you create the directory /media/hdb4. Also, you can change /media/hdb4 to wherever you want.

I hope this helps
--Ian

BernardoLG · 10-01-2006, 10:42 PM

Thanks IBall!!
Will try it as soon as I can.

JaseP · 10-03-2006, 09:00 AM

There is also a utility to adjust the mounting/unmounting of partitions in (k)ubuntu,... If you access a user as failsafe, and sudo kcontrol (assuming you have KDE,... you can use that utility from the SErvices menu in Konqueror to adjust the mounting points of your drives easily...

BernardoLG · 10-16-2006, 10:39 PM

IBall, thanks, it's working just dandy!!
JaseP, thanks, will try that soon!!

Keep posting!!